Vocabulary:
Technologist: a person who specializes in technology.
Democratization: to make or become democratic
Keyhole: pioneering software development company specializing in geospatial data visualization applications for Google
PageRank technology: numerical weighting assigned to a web page that shows its importance or Google "authority"
World Wide Web: a system of extensively interlinked hypertext documents: a branch of the Internet.
Summary: With the help of the internet and the search engines that help with finding and locating stuff like Google and Yahoo, has made things easier to find what you want with click of the button. It is also kind of scary to know that you can find anything you want including a person personal info and reputation with a click of mouse and know who the person is before the other person knows who you are. The other thing that makes it scary is that they can find all your personal background histroy of your life and also search to see if you have done any criminal things that you have done in your past and look it up. This freedom to search up anybody you want can lead to identify theif and someone else take you identify to ruin you reputation were you live and on the web. This can aslo lead people to leak information that they are not suppose to do and cause major issues with other people that know about the information that wasn't suppose to be leaked and cause backlash and anger to other people or governments that find it.
Current Event: http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/04/global-app-revenues-to-hit-25-billion-in-2013
The article talks about how Google and Apple's apps that people have used in the last couple of years, has increased and the number of apps that are out there, have also increased over a certain amount of time. It also talks about the apps have increased revenue that helps like Apple and Google create more business and compete in the global market with other companies.
Our Response: At the begining of the internet, Google and Yahoo controled the market. Now it has expanded to many other search engines, trying to capture the wealth. Not only is Google a leading search engine, they are also taking part in the smart phone world. Here they are butting heads with Apple and others to give the power of the internet to everyone, everywhere. The smart phone world has become just as big as being the top search engine.
Vocabulary:
Technologist: a person who specializes in technology.
Democratization: to make or become democratic
Keyhole: pioneering software development company specializing in geospatial data visualization applications for Google
PageRank technology: numerical weighting assigned to a web page that shows its importance or Google "authority"
World Wide Web: a system of extensively interlinked hypertext documents: a branch of the Internet.
Summary: With the help of the internet and the search engines that help with finding and locating stuff like Google and Yahoo, has made things easier to find what you want with click of the button. It is also kind of scary to know that you can find anything you want including a person personal info and reputation with a click of mouse and know who the person is before the other person knows who you are. The other thing that makes it scary is that they can find all your personal background histroy of your life and also search to see if you have done any criminal things that you have done in your past and look it up. This freedom to search up anybody you want can lead to identify theif and someone else take you identify to ruin you reputation were you live and on the web. This can aslo lead people to leak information that they are not suppose to do and cause major issues with other people that know about the information that wasn't suppose to be leaked and cause backlash and anger to other people or governments that find it.
Current Event:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/04/global-app-revenues-to-hit-25-billion-in-2013
The article talks about how Google and Apple's apps that people have used in the last couple of years, has increased and the number of apps that are out there, have also increased over a certain amount of time. It also talks about the apps have increased revenue that helps like Apple and Google create more business and compete in the global market with other companies.
Our Response:
At the begining of the internet, Google and Yahoo controled the market. Now it has expanded to many other search engines, trying to capture the wealth. Not only is Google a leading search engine, they are also taking part in the smart phone world. Here they are butting heads with Apple and others to give the power of the internet to everyone, everywhere. The smart phone world has become just as big as being the top search engine.